When I got on the phone with John Thornhill, cofounder of Sifted, in the autumn of 2018, I had been writing about Swedish tech for over three years. I had joined a new tech site and seen it grow from producing a few articles a week to 10 a day. The last thing on my mind was joining another new site and going through the same crazy growth journey all over again.
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